Cognition and Emotion: The Cognitive Regulation of Emotions : A Review

Mina Khatibi Mina Khatibi,Dr Farideh Yousefi Dr Farideh Yousefi

doi:10.25215/0204.060

Mina Khatibi Mina Khatibi, Dr Farideh Yousefi Dr Farideh Yousefi

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https://doi.org/10.25215/0204.060

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One of life’s great challenges is successfully regulating emotions (Gross, 2002). The topic of emotion regulation has been of interest since Freud (1923) began to examine the relationship between the control of affective impulses and psychic health ( Krohne et al., 2002) . The emerging field of emotion regulation studies how individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express them. Emotion regulation is defined and distinguished from coping, mood regulation, defense, and affect regulation (Gross, 1998). Many studies have been conducted in the field of cognition and emotion; e.g., emotion regulation: Past, present, future (Gross, 1999), the cognitive regulation of emotions: The role of success versus failure experience and coping dispositions (Krohne et al., 2002), the cognitive control of emotion (Ochsner and Gross, 2005), relationships between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and depressive symptoms: A comparative study of five specific samples, (Garnefski and Kraaij, 2002), incorporating emotion regulation into conceptualizations and treatments of anxiety and mood disorders (Campbell-Sills et al., 2007), healthy and unhealthy emotion regulation: Personality processes, individual differences, and life span development (John and Gross, 2004), emotion regulation in adulthood: Timing is everything (Gross, 2001 ),emotional states, attention, and working memory. Emotion regulation in depression: Relation to cognitive inhibition (Joormann and Gotlib, 2010), individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for affect, relationships, and well-being (Gross and John, 2003), mindfulness and emotion regulation: The development and initial validation of the Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R)(Laurenceau, 2007), regulation of distress and negative emotions: A developmental view (Kopp, 1989), basic emotions, relations among emotions, and emotion-cognition relations (Izard, 1992), emotional reactivity and cognitive regulation in anxious children, (Carthy, 2010)

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One of life's great challenges is successfully regulating emotions (Gross, 2002)
Historical Background: The study of emotion regulation has its origins in the psychoanalytic and stress and coping traditions
Research especially concerned with emotion regulation is a relatively recent innovation, but an interest in how emotions can and should be regulated is new (Averill, 1982). This longstanding interest in emotion regulation has been played out in two principal arenas. These have set the stage for contemporary research on emotion regulation

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One of life's great challenges is successfully regulating emotions (Gross, 2002). The topic of emotion regulation has been of interest since Freud (1923) began to examine the relationship between the control of affective impulses and psychic health ( Krohne et al, 2002). Ochsner et al (2002) reviewed imaging studies of one type of cognitive emotion regulation: reappraisal. Cognitive coping strategies were found to play an important role in the relationship between the experience of negative life events and the reporting of symptoms of depression and anxiety.

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